Ibuprofen molecule

A quick death, no matter how painful, was too good for this guy. He needed to have every molecule of his delusional egomania methodically exposed, dismantled and destroyed.

Without a doubt a personal favorite author who sends electric shivers of excitement coursing into every molecule of my being with your provocative tales. As always I am humbley await erotic brain child with great anticipation.

What a great read! Five stars are not enough, but that's all I could give, what a shame, hehe.
Though I do have a gripe with the device; the very same when I read Asimov's original way back when as well. In both cases the billiard ball was allowed to enter the field in its entirety before it sped away, where 'actually' it should have 'vanished' molecule layer by molecule layer as it entered the field. It maybe could have sped up as it was sucked into the field, but I even doubt that, since the molecule layers would leave far too fast for the pull through the covalent and ionic forces to propagate to the part of the ball that is still outside of the field. 🤷‍♂️🤪
For fans of 'reality based' science fiction I highly recommend Ben Bova's Planet Series.

Dear Anwen-- I really felt like I was there! You made me feel like I was Nick. Every molecule of my body moving with him as you spelled the story out in detail, capturing every nawty impulse I ever had! As for the previous comment I don't think you ever confused Anwen with Ava. Please keep on writing and bringing these fabulous characters with to life in even more sensual scenes!

CB, I always enjoy your stuff and this one is no different, no matter how illogical or infuriating your characters can be. In this situation, the wife is 99.9999999% at fault, yet the husband is apologizing in the end. Huh? No man with one molecule of self esteem could consider a reconciliation with someone who disrespected him so badly. There is no justification for reconciliation and you did not even really try. The wife gave up nothing. It is simply not close to believable. I did enjoy it, though. You are a great writer.

Medical stuff:
Fracture = broken. We have lots of terms to describe the fracture, but a fracture is a break.
People can walk on a broken ankle if they are tough enough to take the pain and the tibia is not where the fracture is.
She would have had an x-ray about a week after the surgery to confirm it was well healing.
Plaster? We more often use water activated fiberglass these days. Less heat as it cures, sets quicker.
Very likely she would have been put in a walking boot.
Advil = Motrin = ibuprofen. Each pill is 200mg, so three were a good choice, four a bit better. Redose after six hours if the pain has returned.

I have been thinking of ways to improve on the Progen Plating that was on the Legacy.
One of the possibilities is the use of Graphene which is a nanoscopic, room temperature, superconductor. In other words, the amount of energy in a 9-volt battery would be enough to elevate a very heavy magnetized structure over a super-thin layer of no mass creating a completely frictionless movement over a graphene sheet that was one molecule thick. This has implications in the rail guns and other mass drivers of the Invictus and hand held arms of the crew and ship. If there is no friction, there is no heat buildup...no barrel resistance...which means the rail guns can fire at max power and not blow up...the only limiting factor would be the projectile being able to handle the acceleration curve without self-destructing...Something a Crystal Alyssium round could easily accomplish. If the nose of the projectile were also prefragmented, one would have Crystal Alyssium rods explode off of the nose of the round upon impact with soft tissue while the core of the round could be a strong penetrator...or alternately, Dana could produce a rifle or pistol HEAT round using the kenetic energy of the fired projectile to form the liquified metal (crystal) penetrator at plasma heat levels. Combined with the energy-shield defeating characteristics of the new ordinance Dana is investigating, you could easily explain this as the way to defeat the Progen ship plating.
But I digress:
Another application, since Graphene is 200 times stronger than steel, is to create a biaxial Graphene skrim and use the Crystal Alysium like you would an epoxy resin, This would have the effect of creating a Crystal Alysium level 'bullet proof' vest that would prevent penetration of projectiles able to shatter/penetrate the Crystal stucture of Crystal Alysium. With Octa-shaped Crystal Alysium and tens of thousands of layers of Graphene sheeting (remember...Graphene is only one molecule thick), you would have a very thin, very strong, impenitrable plate or even cloth of woven fabric (without the Crystal Alyssium resin of course).
To give you some more information about the properties of Graphene:
Kevlar has a tensile strength of 3,757 mega pascals
Carbon fiber (the strongest man-made fiber today) has a tensile strength of 6,370 megapascals
The strongest steel (maraging steel) has a tensile strength of 2,693 megapascals
Graphene has a tensile strength of 130,000 megapascals which is 37 times more than Kevlar and 48 times stronger than the strongest man-made steel (a titanium alloy) and 20 times stronger than Carbon fiber (the strongest man-made fiber). Added to this is the extreme flexibility of Graphene, since it is only a two dimensional sheet, and you have the makings of a very strong, multi-layered scrim that is even stronger than Maliri Crystal (by a factor of 8). The resulting plating using a bi-axial scrim of Graphene and an epoxy type resin of single shaped Crystal Alyssium would make the Invictus Plating about 8 times stronger than the Titanium based version of Crystal Alyssium or 48 times stronger than the Terran standard as opposed to the 6 times Terran standard of current, single shaped Crystal Alysium. Now, 8-shaped Crystal Alyssium would make those numbers climb radically.
As for clothing...The two-dimensional structure of Graphene would make it softer than silk and a 1 molecule thich scrim attached to the fabric would be 37 times stronger than Kevlar. It would be water repellent, and impossible to rip or tear. The clothing would also repel magnetic forces at the molecular level.
There is no reason to believe Dana could not create this material as it is already being made today in small batches.
Additionally: the carbon molecule has four covalent bonds available. Two are used for the hexagonal structure of the hydrocarbon base unit while one is used to bond to the next hexagonal structure. That leaves a bond available for bonding to another two-dimensional layer of Graphene at each carbon molecule in the hexagonal matrix. This has the effect of doubling the strength of the single Graphene sheet with an additional layer of Graphene in a scrim that is only 2 molecules thick (actually bond widths are used since molecules really don't have a depth). With her new abilities, Dana could make a 2 molecule thick sheet of molecularly connected Graphene and layer them in 30 degree offset layers (each layer 2 molecules thick), using 8-shaped Crystal Alysium as an epoxy type binding agent that would be close to 20 times stronger than their current shield plating...even without the addition of the Progen metallergy.
For those in America, 130,000 mega pascals equates to 18,855,000 pounds per square inch or 9,427.5 tonnes per square inch. That is some VERY strong carbon lattice. And it is only one molecule thick!
To put that in perspective: If the singularity driver fires a 10 inch Titanium ball at approximately 250,000 kph (just short of the speed of light) it would only take about 750 layers of one molecule thick sheets of Graphene to stop it. Since a sheet of paper is about 650,000 atoms (bonds) thick, a paper thin Graphene scrim layed over the top and shaped into the 8 shaped Crystal Alysium plating on the invictus would be overkill when stopping the penetration of a Singularity mass driver round.
And with it being 8-shaped Crystal Alyssium, it would also be immune to energy weapons, being 100% reflective.
Now THAT is what I call the ultimate shield panel material!!!!!